Filter.



No. 746,292. PATENTED 13130.8, 1903.

- A. N. CLARK.

FILTER.

APPLICATION FILED MARuA, 1903. no MODEL.

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Patented December 8, 1903.

PATENT OFF-ICE.

ALLISON N. CLARK, OF PLAINVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

FILTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,292, dated December 8, 1903- Application filed March 4, 1908.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALLISON N. CLARK, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Plainville, in thecounty ofllartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Filters, of which the following is a specification.

The chief object of this invention is to pro-- vide in convenient and serviceable form a filter in which the water is compelled to follow a circuitous course, and is thus subjected to the action of the filtering material for a longer period of time than is possible in most of the filters of this class now in use.

Briefiy' described, my improved filter, as here illustrated, consists of an outerand an inner cylindrical shell and a helical partition.

between said shells, the helical space between the adjacent portions of said partition being packed with some suitable filtering material. Mounted upon each end of the said outer shell is a cap or head that is threaded to screw upon an ordinary faucet or bibcock, and said shells are further provided with openings adapted to direct the water into and out of the said helically-arranged filtering material.

The drawings annexed hereto illustrate afilter embodying my present improvements, Figure 1 being a'central longitudinal sectional view of such a filter. Fig. 2 is a cross- -sectional Viewof a like filter, taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, the letter aindicates a cylinder of glass, metal, or other suit-. able material forming the outer shell or casing of said filter, and 1) denotes a similar shell of lesser diameter located within and concentrio with the outer shell a.

0 indicates a partition arranged helically between the two shells a b, andd indicates charcoal, ground bone, gravel, or some other suitable filtering material that is packed be tweenthe coils of the partition 0'.

Upon the opposite ends of the casing a are heads e e, that are threaded internally, so as to be readily screwed upon a faucet or bibcock, the inner portion of each head being formed with an opening g, that registers with the entrance to or the exit from the helicallyarranged filtering material.

When assembling the parts of my described filter, I preferably interpose a sheet of wire Serial N0- l46,176. (No model.)

screen or perforate metal it between the heads andthe body of the filter in order that the filtering material may be retained within the helical chamber.

When in service, my new filter is screwed v upon the delivery end of a faucet, and when Said faucet is opened the water passes through the hole gin the head and is caused to follow the helically-arranged filtering material, and is thus subjected to the action of said mate'- rial until the delivery end of the filteringchamber is reached, when said water (which is then thoroughly cleansed of all impurities) is discharged through the lower head.

Should my described filter become clogged and fouled by reason of long-continued use,

it may be cleansed and renewed by. simply reversing the position of the said filter on the faucet.

My said filter may be as cheaply produced as many, if not all, of the filters of this class now in use, and in contradistinction to such ordinary filters mine retains the water in contact with the filtering material for a much greater length of time, resulting in a more complete cleansing of said water.

Having .thus described my invention, I claim- As an improved article of manufacture, a reversible filter consisting of two concentric non-pervious cylindrical walls, a helical partition disposed between said walls, filtering ALLISON N. CLARK.

Witnesses: I

ALBERT A. TAYLOR, B. B. HOLMES. 

